{"id":3729,"date":"2019-12-25T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2019-12-31T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:04:55","slug":"x5-corrosion-around-the-battery-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/x5-corrosion-around-the-battery-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"X5 – Corrosion Around The Battery Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Like many BMWs of its era, the E53 X5 has its battery mounted in the centre of the boot floor. It sits in a large, thick plastic tub, and the floor pan has a large rectangular cut-out for this plastic tub. It seems common for the floor pan to corrode around the edges of this cut-out, so I ripped it apart to find out how my X5 was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I discovered a little rust. Nothing too bad, but certainly worth remedial action, and enough to compel me to get underneath and search for more. When it comes to rust, I really like to address it fast. All the time there’s just a bit of surface corrosion, I can deal with it myself. If the metal is allowed to weaken, it becomes much more of a PITA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here’s what I found when I’d removed the battery and its tray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n